Preliminary Shipment

Explanation

This activity is used to transfer a shipment in the Complete status back to the Preliminary status. Changes to the shipment and handling unit structure cannot be performed if the shipment is in the Complete status. Therefore, if you want to make any necessary changes to the shipment, you must first reverse the shipment from the Complete status to the Preliminary status. This can be done per shipment or for all shipments connected to a consolidated shipment. A consolidated shipment is defined as one departure of several shipments from the specified site, to all the delivery addresses of the connected shipments. When executed from the consolidated shipment all connected shipments will be transferred back to being preliminary.

Prerequisites

The shipment must be in the Complete status. 

System Effects

The shipment will assume the Preliminary status. 

Window

Shipment 
Shipments
Consolidated Shipment
Consolidated Shipments

Related Window Descriptions

Shipment
Shipments
Consolidated Shipment
Consolidated Shipments

Procedure

To transfer back to the Preliminary status via a shipment:

1. Open the Shipment window or the Shipments window.
2. Retrieve the shipment that you want to transfer back to the Preliminary status, by using the Populate or Query function.
3. Right-click and then click Preliminary.

To transfer back to the Preliminary status via a consolidated shipment:

1. Open the Consolidated Shipment window or the Consolidated Shipments window.
2. Search for the consolidated shipment, for which you want to transfer back to the Preliminary status for all connected shipments, by using the Populate or Query function.
3. Right-click and then click Preliminary.